| Sir James Edward Alexander - 1857 - 356 páginas
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Were half the power that fills the world with terror—...bestowed on camps and courts— Given to redeem the mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." On the 7th of September the weather was... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarres t the celestial harmonies Î Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...blindness, Melting all spirits earthly into one, And leaving holiness and joy — 'TIS KINDNESS. DK LEE. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's name by all would be abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ;... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 páginas
...celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! l Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease... | |
| Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 páginas
...Leaving the subject until ' the day shall declare it,' I felt content to reason with Longfellow : ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
| Virginia De Forrest - 1860 - 368 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for ever more the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow... | |
| 1860 - 430 páginas
...Florida ; better than if we had an army of a million Zouaves, and a fleet of armed Great Easterns. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." u The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 446 páginas
...wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The eehoing sounds grow fainter and then eease ;... | |
| William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 páginas
...who rose up against tyranny, were themselves deeply tainted with the vices that tyranny engenders. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
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